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Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging FISA Amendments Act Unconstitutional Spying Law Jeopardizes Americans' Privacy
Link: http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/40805prs20090820.html
A federal court today dismissed an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging an unconstitutional government spying law. The ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed the landmark lawsuit in July 2008 to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which gives the executive branch virtually unchecked power to sweep up Americans' international e-mails and telephone calls. The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of a broad coalition of attorneys and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations whose ability to perform their work – which relies on
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